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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Call for Book Chapters: Collecting the Contemporary (Book to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013)

Call for Book Chapters: Collecting the Contemporary (Book to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013)

COLLECTING THE CONTEMPORARY Edited by Owain Rhys and Zelda BaveystockWe invite international submissions to be included in this forthcoming book, to be published by MuseumsEtc in 2013.
The book will be edited by Owain Rhys, Curator of Contemporary Life
at St Fagans: National History Museum, Wales and Zelda Baveystock,
Lecturer in Arts Management and Museum Studies at Manchester
University.

Why and how should social history museums engage with contemporary
collecting? To fill gaps in the collection? To record modern urban life?
To engage with minority communities? To link past and present? There
are many possible responses... And many museums collect contemporary
objects, stories, images and sounds - consciously or unconsciously. But
reasoned policies and procedures are very often lacking. And - given the
uniquely detailed record of contemporary life recorded by ubiquitous
media - how best are museums to record and present contemporary life in
their collections?

An overview of contemporary collecting in a social historical context
is well overdue. Original source material, ideas, developments and
research has never before been brought together in a single volume. This
book will bring together practitioners from around the world to provide
a contemporary and convenient reader which aims to lay the foundations
for future initiatives.

We welcome submissions - of between 3000 and 5000 words – on the
practice, theory and history of contemporary collecting in social
history museums, based on - but not confined to - the following issues
and themes. We are particularly interested in new and pioneering
initiatives and innovative thinking in this field.

The editors
Owain Rhys has recently published Contemporary Collecting: Theory and Practice
with MuseumsEtc. This book gathered together disparate strands of
contemporary collecting theory and history, and provided an insight into
current practices at St Fagans: National History Museum. Owain is
interested in formalising definitions and procedures, and in
strengthening the bonds between those museums involved in contemporary
collecting. Zelda Baveystock has a longstanding interest in contemporary
collecting. As the first Keeper of Contemporary Collecting at Tyne &
Wear Archives & Museums, she established a subject specialist
network of urban history museums actively involved in the field in 2004.
She has lectured and taught on the subject in the UK, and in Sweden.

Submissions
If you are interested in being considered as a contributor, please
send an abstract (up to 250 words) and a short biography to both the
editors and the publishers at the following addresses:
owain.rhys@museumwales.ac.uk, zelda.baveystock@manchester.ac.uk and
books@museumsetc.com by 10 December 2012. Enquiries should also
be sent to these addresses. Contributors will receive a complimentary
copy of the publication and a discount on more.

The book will be published in print and digital editions by MuseumsEtc in 2013.DeadlinesABSTRACTS: 10 DECEMBER 2012CONTRIBUTORS NOTIFIED: 11 JANUARY 2013COMPLETED PAPERS: 2 APRIL 2013